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The Center for Democracy and Technology Europe, the Brussels-based branch of the D.C. non-profit organization that advocates for digital rights, has laid out its recommendations to EU lawmakers negotiating the upcoming EU AI Act. The organization has lost its enthusiasm for the act given the large number of exemptions to the prohibition of remote biometric surveillance in publicly-accessible spaces and the lack of a rights-based approach. CDT Europe follows digital rights group EDRi in challenging the definition of remote biometric identification. Recommendations: clearer definition, ban real-time untargeted, member-level talksThe briefing concludes with four areas of recommendations to the negotiating parties on the AI Act. Article TopicsAI | AI Act | biometric identification | biometrics | data privacy | Europe | facial recognition | legislation